The special position of Fars agriculture in ensuring the country's food security

Mehr News Agency; The group of provinces: Fars is one of the most important provinces in the country in the production and supply of agricultural products, and the agricultural sector of Fars plays an essential role in employment, gross national product and food security of the country in such a way that with 279 thousand beneficiaries; 17 and a half percent of the province's employees work in the agricultural sector.

Four Seasons Province, Fars is one of the best weather the most And it is the largest province known in the field of agriculture, which, in addition to the mass production of wheat, in the production of crops and garden crops such as figs, walnuts, citrus fruits, especially lemons, dates, apples, pomegranates, beets, cotton, legumes, grains and saffron, always except It is the first tier provinces.

In Fars Province, due to the variety of climates, agriculture and horticulture are active all seasons of the year, and various products of this province are offered to domestic and foreign consumption markets, but the brands that are engraved on Fars products represent the name of this province. Not as the original manufacturer.

Fars ranks first in the country's crop production

Majid Reza PakiariIn a conversation with Mehr reporter about the province's position in the field of agricultural production, the Deputy Director of Plant Production Improvement of Fars Agricultural Jihad said: Fars province ranks second in the country with the production of 12.5 million tons of agricultural products and 7.8 percent of the added value of the agricultural sector. is assigned to itself.

He continued: Horticultural products with the production of 14.3 million tons provide 13% and agricultural products 11.5% of the agricultural products of the whole country, which is the first rank in the field of horticultural products and the second rank in the field of agricultural products of Fars province.

Pakiari Referring to the products whose production is in the first place in the province, he added: in the production of products such as fodder corn, barley, tomatoes, beans, cotton, legumes, vegetables, fodder plants, grapes, dates, limes, pomegranates, figs, Rose, rose, Nasha Greenhouse and rose greenhouse and seedling production is the first rank in the country related to Fars province.

Deputy of Fars Agricultural Jihad, one of the problems of the agricultural sector of the province dissatisfaction energy and power outages of wells and agricultural units and said: Petrochemical gas outage and lack of production and delivery of urea fertilizer to agriculture in the province, fake poisons and fertilizers, increase in the price of inputs and labor costs, the country's dependence on seeds, especially vegetables and summer, from 0 Another problem is in the field of agriculture.

Annual production of one million and 100 thousand tons of wheat in Fars

Next, we inquired about the status of wheat production as the most important agricultural product of Fars province, which is a strategic product.

Sohail Farid, deputy of agriculture of Fars Agricultural Jihad, said about this important product: Since wheat plays a major role in the country's food industry, self-sufficiency in it is very important.

He continued: Fars province ranks fourth in the country with the production of more than one million and one hundred thousand tons of wheat and is always ranked in the direction of ensuring the country's food security.

The deputy of agriculture of Fars Agricultural Jihad stated that the need of bread, industry and industry of Fars province is 600 thousand tons and the need of the country is more than 12 million tons and added: Fars province produces about 45% more wheat than its own needs, and this surplus is distributed to all places. The country sends grain according to the quota of the General Administration, but in general, there is no wheat export due to the production level of the country's needs.

Referring to the limitations and problems related to wheat production in the province, Farid said: In recent years, the high cost of agricultural inputs and services has caused the production costs to rise, although with the use of modern irrigation methods (tip or strip irrigation), the water requirement of wheat, which is 6000 It has reduced 7,500 cubic meters per hectare to about 4,000 cubic meters and has caused water productivity, but the reduction of water resources limits the cultivated areas every year.

He continued: with interest get From strong organizations such as the Merovdasht Combine Harvesters Union, Rural and Production Cooperative Unions, Chamber of Agricultural Guilds, Wheat Farmers Foundation, etc., as well as the use of leading and capable farmers, experienced experts and equipped planting and harvesting fleets with potential capacities of mechanized cultivation and principles of guaranteed purchase Wheat is bought by the government and through the state trading company (General Grain Department of the province), which bought 917 thousand tons from farmers last year.

According to Mehr's report, it is very important to strengthen the capacities of the agricultural sector and solve the problems of this sector so that, in addition to facilitating the production and supply process, more motivation can be injected to the people working in the production sector.